Passages crewed with 'gustavo'

After a rest of five days the crew is ready to take off for the passage to Antigua. As noted in another post, Art will be staying behind in Lanzarote to mend a broken rib and will fly to join up with the yacht in Antigua. We'll look forward to happy reunion with both Art and Carmen in time for New Year's Eve. Like last year, Feelin' Good will be out to sea for Christmas so be sure to...

Tomorrow we begin our circumnavigation of the world (wow! did I really just type that??). As with any large undertaking, you have to break it up into smaller pieces. Our first 'piece' is the passage from the island of Mallorca, Spain to the island of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. The distance is about 1,100 nm and should take us about 6 days to complete.

We're ready to begin our passage across the Atlantic to the Caribbean tomorrow. The crew and boat are ready and we have so many provisions, we could go across and back again! We wanted to have all our favorite items onboard from Europe from the winter season as it's difficult to find what we want in the supermarkets of the islands.

We're entering the final week before we leave on our Trans-Atlantic passage from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria to Rodney Bay, St. Lucia. The yacht is ready and so is the crew so this last week will be spent completing our provisioning and welcoming our last two crew members, Gustavo and Roland as they join us. Of course, the final week will have the evening get-togethers with other yacht...